Can we survive more government meddling?

Two daughters were born to my wife and I in 1959 and 1960. I was
attending the University of Arizona on the GI Bill and my wife
worked as a bookkeeper.

We didn't make a lot of money, but we were able to put away a
bit of money each week. After each birth, we paid the doctor and
hospital bills. Each amounted to a little more than $200. Neither
an insurance company nor any government was involved.

In 1962, while I was employed by the city of Los Angeles, our
son was born. The city offered a "hospitalization" plan which
covered a portion of a hospital stay. We paid our physician
directly. Everyone I knew did the same thing. Both my wife and I
understood that "health care" was the physical care a person took
of himself and that of his family, and "medical care" was the care
one received from a professional in the medical field.

Now, 50 years later, the federal government controls more than
50 percent of all medical care, and what a disaster it's been.
Costs are out of sight and a wedge has been driven between the
medical care provider and the patients.

Can we really survive any more government intervention into
anything as critical as our medical care?